DANGER IN SLEEP

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: DANGER IN SLEEP

CONTINUE FROM LAST MESSAGE

Romans 13:11 says, and that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Paul said they were sleeping and had to wake up. If physical
sleep is very bad what about spiritual sleep?

Sleep is a period of rest during which the sleeper loses the awareness of his surroundings. So, the danger in sleep is the loss of awareness. The elder brother of sleep is what medical people call coma.

Some people are in spiritual coma. Messages and prayer do not worth anything to them. They may be at church service but would not hear what the preacher is saying because they are already dead spiritually even though they are alive physically.

When a person falls asleep, all his physical activity decreases, his muscles relax and he could have a nightmare. Occasionally a person sleep-walks. A person who is sleep-walking can rise up, go to the kitchen, drink something go back to the bed and continue to sleep.

And if you say, who drank this thing? He would say, I never stood up, I did not go there. This is not common in Africa though. I pray that it will not happen to you, in Jesus name.

Some people even discuss in their sleep. That is why a local proverb says that sleep is the friend of death. It is during sleep that the agents of satan in our environment lay evil eggs in people's lives and they try to make sure that their victims do not know what they have done, because if they know, they will shake off the evil eggs.

That is why the Bible says that while men slept, his enemies came quietly, planted evil and went away. It is not all enemies that will attack you directly. In fact, most enemies will not attack you directly. They just come, lay their evil eggs and go away.

When you lose the battle of the bed, you lose all battles. Satan has destroyed so many good things because of sleep. When you are addicted to sleep physically it is bad, but it is even worse when it is transferred to the spirit man. Sleep gives the enemy a chance to sow tares.

While men sleep, many human tragedies occur. For example, fire, hurricane and tornadoes sweeping homes and cities away sometimes before the victims wake up. So, sleep is a time of insecurities, you cannot protect yourself at that time. It is a time of inactivity and a time of delusion when you assume that all is right only for you to wake up to see a great change. So, we need to be aware of the dangers of spiritual slumber. Great changes may occur for the enemy would be at work.

Some people would say, when I went to sleep last night, I was okay but by the time I woke up, I had become another person." Some people go to bed sound only to wake up mad. The powers of the night waited for them to sleep and planted things in their lives.

LET US PRAY
Please, take this prayer points: every seed of the power of the night, And every danger I have incurred during my sleep, am deliver of them all in the name of Jesus.

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